Ranking the Top-26 Landing Spots for the Rookie Class (Episode 861 with Evan Silva and Adam Levitan)
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🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan and Evan Silva look through the top 26 landing spots for NFL rookies, analyzing which players are in the best positions to succeed in your fantasy teams next year, and which highly drafted ones face more of an uphill battle.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The second-round rookies who are early favorites to lead their backfield
- Can we still bet on backs drafted to a Shanahan scheme?
- Can Chicago feed both Colston Loveland and Luther Burden?
- Which 3rd round pick find the 6th best landing spot?
- Why Jalen Milroe cracks the list ahead of Tyler Shough and Jaxson Dart?
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
3:05 - #1 Ashton Jeanty - Raiders
5:21 - #2 Omarion Hampton - Chargers
8:29 - #3 Travis Hunter - Jaguars
11:12 - #4 Tet McMillan -Panthers
13:34 - #5 RJ Harvey - Broncos
16:55 - #6 Kaleb Johnson - Steelers
19:08 - #7 Emeka Egbuka - Buccaneers
21:50 - #8 TreVeyon Henderson - Patriots
23:49 - #9 Matthew Golden - Packers
26:25 - #10 Colston Loveland - Bears
28:34 - #11 Jayden Higgins - Texans
30:21 - #12 Quinshon Judkins - Browns
33:08 - #13 Luther Burden - Bears
26:28 - #14 Cam Ward - Titans
38:05 - #15 Tyler Warren - Colts
39:50 - #16 Kyle Williams - Patriots
41:33 - #17 Bhayshul Tuten - Jaguars
44:26 - #18 Jack Bech - Raiders
46:26 - #19 Tre Harris - Chargers
47:48 - #20 Cam Skattebo - Giants
49:42 - #21 Jarquez Hunter - Rams
51:13 - #22 Mason Taylor - Jets
52:41 - #23 Jordan James - 49ers
54:07 - #24 Jalen Milroe - Seahawks
55:40 - #25 Elijah Arroyo - Seahawks
56:33 - #26 Isaac Teslaa - Lions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 861 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:17.6 | My name is Adam Levittan. |
| 0:18.7 | As always, joined by Evan Silva. |
| 0:20.8 | And rookies are the buzz of the |
| 0:23.0 | fantasy football world. Shiny New Object Syndrome is in full effect. I've been infected as well by |
| 0:30.3 | rookie fever. Anyways, Evan, how's it going today? Yeah, it's a fun show that we do every year, |
| 0:35.6 | analyzing rookie landing spots. |
| 0:43.4 | We'll primarily focus on redraft analysis, but we'll definitely mix in some dynasty takes. |
| 0:48.8 | I've been in the lab looking at the Sims, looking at the analytics, rocking the old school rhodoviz sweatshirt. |
| 0:51.4 | Yeah, let's get after it. |
| 0:52.8 | Yes, as Evan noted, on today's show, we are going to talk |
| 0:56.1 | landing spots for this year's rookie class. The way I like to think about fantasy is kind of |
| 1:02.2 | segmented by format, you know, for long-term dynasty leagues where you can hold players forever. |
| 1:07.7 | I would say talent should be 70 or 80% of the evaluation and the rest is landing spot. |
| 1:13.5 | For season long, talent is maybe 40 or 50% rest is landing spot. And of course, for the great game |
| 1:19.7 | of DFS, talent matters some, but the projected opportunity is a majority of what matters. |
| 1:25.2 | Now, I want to be very clear. The way you earn opportunity in the NFL |
| 1:29.4 | is by being good at football, by being a talent, by being open so your quarterback throws it to you, |
| 1:34.9 | by being a freak so your coach schemes you 20 touches, et cetera. So there's a lot of nuance here, |
| 1:40.0 | but what we're going to do is rank the landing spots for this year's top 26 rookies. |
| 1:46.2 | This is roughly 70% focused on season long, aka 2025 only. |
| 1:51.4 | And 30% of the ranking is based on dynasty, aka long-term outlook. |
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